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BrandBastion vs BrandwatchAI built to act on conversations, not just analyze them

Keep your socials safe and responsive with customizable AI configured for your brand. Start turning social signals into action at scale.

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Where BrandBastion
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From listening to engaging at scale

BrandBastion connects social listening directly to action across owned comments, earned mentions, hashtags, brand keywords and TikTok trending videos. Our AI drafts replies directly in your inbox using your website content, including product pages and help center articles. It also analyzes the full post context before drafting the responses and follows your brand guidelines. Your team simply reviews and batch approves.

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Brand-specific moderation and risk alerts

BrandBastion moderation adapts to post context and can be customized with brand-specific models, sensitivity levels, and comment categories. You control what gets hidden by platform, campaign, or post type, while real-time alerts and AI summaries help your team spot emerging risks fast. It is not a one-size-fits-all model.

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Advanced sentiment and AI insights

BrandBastion sentiment analysis uses your brand context and business goals to classify sentiment based on real impact. It captures industry nuance, sarcasm, and subtext, so a negative-sounding comment can still be recognized as positive when it signals real customer value.

Powered by Astra, our AI Analyst, teams can extract actionable insights from their social media interactions, from improving product feedback loops and managing crises to planning the next ad campaigns.

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"Before BrandBastion, tracking conversations on social media and agent activity was a huge challenge. BrandBastion has been a game-changer for us. We've saved over 450 hours monthly in moderation and in responding efforts."
DeeDee Lawrence Director of Customer Experience

Feature and service comparison

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AI replies and automation
Pre-drafted AI replies
Post-aware, accurate, and on-brand replies prepared before your team logs in
Iris AI focuses on writing assistance and reply suggestions
Custom AI prompting and brand rules
Fully customizable prompts and brand voice
Brand personality and on demand prompts in Iris AI, plus templates
Knowledge-grounded replies
Replies reference your website or help center with sources
Not documented
Response safeguards
Pre-send compliance and safety gates
AI safety gates are not documented
Batch reply
Generate and approve many replies at once
Not documented
Moderation and brand protection
Automated comment moderation
Real-time and advanced post-aware AI moderation
Moderation actions can be applied via rules and bulk actions, depth of contextual AI moderation is not documented
Crisis detection and alerts
AI-driven escalation in real time
Monitoring and alerting capabilities in its intelligence products, operational escalation depends on setup
Multi-language moderation
109 languages
Language coverage for social moderation is not disclosed
Engagement and insights
Sentiment analysis
Custom models trained on your brand
Core to Brandwatch intelligence products
Always on engagement
AI and optional managed service
Team workflows in Engage
Other use cases
Social Listening
Add-on feature
Core strength
Scheduling
Supported
Supported (part of part of Brandwatch Social Media Management plan)
Review Management
Pre-drafted responses based on your site content, impact reporting on ratings, and alerts when reviews mention bugs or issues.
Google reviews coverage only. AI grounding and rating impact reporting are not described
Coverage and scale
Seat management
Unlimited user seats
Seat model varies by contract
Platforms coverage
Unified coverage across paid, organic comments, and DMs on all platforms
TikTok DMs are not supported, paid ad coverage varies by connector
Customer success support
Dedicated CSM since day 1
Customer Success Manager is referenced in product support, scope varies by contract

See Agent+ in action

+48% increase in Return on Ad Spend

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+31% increase in Engagement Rate

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450 hours saved every month

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+116% increase in Positive Sentiment

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No extra work for your team

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Analyzing…
12+ years of expertise

Our AI is trained on more than a decade of real social conversations, capturing tone, intent, and platform context with high accuracy.

Post-aware understanding

We analyze the full post including caption, creative, and audio before taking action, so replies, alerts, hiding, and tagging are always grounded in context.

Built-in AI customization

Our models adapt to your brand’s voice, needs, and nuances. You can rely on proven models or create bespoke ones tailored to your business.

Instant AI insights

On top of moderation and engagement, you can quickly surface insights. Ask a question and receive clear, actionable answers within seconds.

FAQs

 

Does BrandBastion replace Brandwatch entirely?

It depends on your primary goal. If your team mainly needs deep consumer intelligence for research and monitoring, Brandwatch is often a strong fit. If your priority is executing on high volume conversations with predrafted replies, moderation, and fast risk response, BrandBastion is built for that day-to-day workflow.

Do both platforms support social listening and insights?

Yes, but they are optimized differently. Brandwatch is strong for broad consumer intelligence and research-driven monitoring. BrandBastion connects listening directly to execution, so signals from post mentions, comment mentions, hashtags, brand keywords, and TikTok trending videos flow into reply workflows, moderation actions, and risk alerts. This helps teams act faster with less manual work.

How does BrandBastion differ from Brandwatch on engagement workflows?

Brandwatch Engage offers a unified inbox, templates, bulk actions, and Iris AI suggestions for alternative replies. BrandBastion goes further for execution at scale by preparing knowledge-grounded and on-brand replies ahead of time, showing the sources used, and queuing drafts for fast review and batch approval.

What insights and performance data does BrandBastion provide?

BrandBastion provides actionable insights across sentiment trends, conversation topics, reviews, paid and organic engagement, community growth, and operational performance. Teams can track everything from TikTok trends and post-level risk signals to moderation actions, reply performance, and CX agent productivity, all in one platform built to turn insights into action.

Discover how BrandBastion can help your brand grow.

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